The weDignify Podcast

Dr. Donna Harrison is back to discuss the harm that abortion inflicts on women. At the end of the episode, Morgan shares peer-reviewed research to help you be better equipped to make your case against abortion.

Mentioned in this episode:

American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists - link

Linking Breast Cancer and Abortion - link

Illinois Right to Life: Abortion Hurts Women - link

"Abortion, Substance Abuse and Mental Health in Early Adulthood: Thirteen-Year Longitudinal Evidence from the United States" - link

Planned Parenthood: "How safe is an in-clinic abortion?" - link

Hope After Abortion: Your Stories (stories from women and men who have suffered from abortion) - link

Two guests today!

First, Rebecca Kiessling from Save the 1 joins Morgan to share her testimony.

Second, Sarah Earley, second-year weDignify Campus Mentor, joins Morgan to teach us how to respond to arguments for abortion in "hard cases". Covered are:

1. Bodily autonomy

2. Abortion in cases of rape

3. Abortion in cases of incest

4. Abortion to save the life of the mother

Single mom, Claire, joins Morgan to share her story of choosing life as a college student and the joys and struggles along the way.

Erin Kainrath from weDignify at the University of Illinois joins Morgan to chat about how she is putting her virtue into action every day on campus. Prepare to be inspired!

Dr. Donna Harrison, Executive Director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists joins Morgan to teach us about the different abortion procedures. She covers how abortions are performed, when during a pregnancy they're performed, and the physical experience of the pre-born child.

Dr. Maureen Condic, Associate Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine joins Morgan to answer the question "when does human life begin?"

Other questions answered in this episode:

• Is there debate within the scientific community about when human life begins?
• Do we actually know when a new human life begins?
• Isn't fertilization a complicated process within which no one truly knows when a new human organism is created?
• Why can't we say that life begins with a heartbeat, brainwaves, etc.?
• Embryocidal vs abortion

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Bioethics Defense Fund: White Papers - LINK "Download user-friendly resources on embryology, embryonic stem cell research and cloning, gestational surrogacy, three-parent embryos and more."

Father Chase Hilgenbrinck of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria, Illinois joins Morgan to discuss YOUR moral responsibility to act. Covered in this episode: - Where does human dignity come from? - How can you uphold your personal dignity? - How can you better defend the dignity of others? - If you believe that abortion is wrong, do you have to do anything about it? - Is prayer enough?

Morgan discusses three commonly used phrases that you need to stop using in order to build a culture of life. Here's a clue: they relate to empathy, adoption, and pregnancy announcements.

BONUS: an exciting announcement from weDignify!

Jay Watts of Merely Human Ministries joins Morgan to discuss what to say in response to common pro-choice arguments. In this episode, you will learn: 1. Trot out the Toddler 2. SLED 3. How to argue well

Join Morgan as she talks with Kevin Grillot about how to have more effective conversations about abortion.

How can you ensure that people will listen to you? How can you talk about a tense subject without creating a screaming match? How do you express your perspective while respecting the person right in front of you?

All this and more will be answered in this episode!